Exercise Therapy Device

Abstract

To provide an exercise therapy device capable of highly motivating an exerciser to continue exercise therapy, the exercise therapy device equipped with AV equipment and a rotation shaft includes: a rotation speed detection unit; a display unit for displaying menu items of contents and the content reproduced by the AV equipment; a menu selection unit for sequentially displaying the menu items of contents when the rotation shaft is rotating and, when one of the menu items has been externally selected, confirming the one of the menu items as a menu to be displayed by the AV equipment; and a reproduction speed setting unit for setting a constant or a variable speed. The AV equipment reproduces the content at one of the predetermined constant speed or the variable speed which is set when the rotation shaft is rotating, and stops reproducing the content when the rotation shaft is stopped.

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0001]1. Field of the Invention[0002]The present invention relates to an exercise therapy device used by an athlete, an exerciser in postoperative recovery of orthopedic surgery, an exerciser with cerebrovascular disorder, or the like, for the purpose of exercise therapy.[0003]2. Description of the Related Art[0004]A conventional exercise therapy device includes a treadmill as an example, which is provided with a driving device for driving an endless belt for running of the treadmill, an operation panel for selecting an operation speed of the driving device and image information in a database to be output on a display device, and a landscape display device for displaying images on the display device through a control section for performing a process of displaying and outputting images in conjugation with the operation speed of the driving device.[0005]When the treadmill has entered a running state in which the endless belt for running which is driven by th...

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Benefits of technology

[0010]It is an object of the present invention to provide an exercise therapy device capable of highly motivating an exerciser to continue exercise therapy.

[0012]According to the exercise therapy device of the present invention, the menu items for allowing the exerciser to select a content that the exerciser wants to watch or listen to are sequentially displayed on the display device only when the exerciser is pedalling the pedals, to thereby produce an effect that an exerciser is highly motivated to continue exercise therapy by a desire to search for a content that the exerciser wants to watch or listen to.

Problems solved by technology

However, the exerciser cannot perform exercise while watching or listening to an ordinary movie or music at a normal reproducing speed.

Accordingly, it is impossible to reproduce various contents at a normal reproducing speed irrespective of whether the running speed becomes slower or even faster.

Therefore, the images that the exerciser can watch during exercise are limited, which makes it difficult to keep motivating the exerciser.

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